He’ll enter the cage with six weeks of sobriety, a new fight team behind him, and the real threat of homelessness if he doesn’t get a victory.

“I’m facing pressure in this fight, but I’ve been through so much in my life recently that honestly, I’m not nervous at all,” Fickett told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio) earlier this week. “If I don’t win this fight, I’m pretty much homeless.”

Fickett (42-17) meets jiu-jitsu ace Jonatas Novaes (9-4) tonight in a featured bout at ShoFIGHT 20, which takes place at O’Reilly Family Event Center in Springfield, Mo. The event airs via tape-delayed pay-per-view on July 1, though Canadian fans can watch it live on The Fight Network at 9 p.m. ET (6 p.m. PT).

Fickett is a big-show vet who’s fought for the UFC, Strikeforce, DREAM and other top promotions during a 13-year career plagued by inconsistency and outside-the-cage issues. MMAFighting‘s Ben Fowlkes recently featured many of them, including a jail stint that cost him a spot on “The Ultimate Fighter 1,” custody issues with his daughter, and an alcohol problem that prompted his UFC release and soiled his reputation as a dependable fighter.

Fickett, though, recently left Arizona to live and train in Florida. He’s been sober for 40 days and recently moved into a rehabilitation center near his new fight home at American Top Team. But if he doesn’t pull off the win tonight and get the paycheck he needs, he could be homeless.

Yet strangely?

“I’m just grateful where I am in life after some real rough patches the last few months,” he said. “Even though I’ll be homeless if I don’t win this fight, which I don’t plan on losing, that brings me no pressure whatsoever.”

Fickett said a lot of the credit goes to his new manager Jason Chambers, who took on more than a simple fighting career when he signed the 32-year-old vet. Fickett recently ended a four-fight losing streak – his third such skid in four years – with a regional-show win over Kevin Knabjian in March. Chambers then got him booked for tonight’s bout with Novaes.

“I have complete faith in him,” Fickett said of Chambers. “For this fight, I didn’t even know who or where I was fighting until a couple weeks ago. … I leave it up to him and have him tell me when to show up.”

Chambers also is the one who helped Fickett seek treatment for alcoholism and introduced him to ATT, one of the world’s top fight camps. Fickett now calls Florida home.

“I moved out there for American Top Team and the rehabilitation center,” he said. “I picked the spot because of those two variables.

“I’m training at American Top Team, which completely blew my mind. Not what I expected. Everyone is so humble and gracious and hospitable. I love the team there, and I definitely now call myself a team member of American Top Team.”

A focused Fickett can be a dangerous thing. During his long career, he’s defeated a host of notables, including Dennis Hallman, Kenny Florian, Carlo Prater, Josh Neer, Josh Koscheck, Kurt Pellegrino and Matt Veach.

But with a new camp and his sobriety, he thinks he has plenty of fights ahead. Tonight’s bout marks his 60th, and he sees no reason he couldn’t meek it an even hundred.

“I’d definitely like to have a hundred fights,” he said. “I think that would be an admirable mark. I think I could do that. I just still want to be able to compete with top-tier guys. I don’t want to be a 100-0 guy who’s fighting in Daisy’s Car Wash against some bum just to get a fight and win under my belt.

“I’ll keep fighting until I can’t anymore. As soon as I can’t keep up with the competition, I’m definitely smart enough to know it’s time to do something else.”

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